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0 pointslatchkey3y ago0 comments

Sounds like the Apple app store.

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Apps are a different thing since even if you sideload apps, one app can’t insert itself in to another app to scrape your data. While extensions are almost like kernel extensions that can do just about anything.

dcow3y ago

The naivety of innocence is rather blissful, isn't it?

Gigachad3y ago

Care to provide an example of an ios app which can read the data from other apps when they shouldn't?

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nine_k3y ago

But the idea of the app isolation is just that — apps should not be able to touch each other.

There are of course escape hatches, because sometimes you want apps to interact.

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Gigachad3y ago

dcow3y ago

The naivety of innocence is rather blissful, isn't it?

Gigachad3y ago

Care to provide an example of an ios app which can read the data from other apps when they shouldn't?

2 more replies

nine_k3y ago

But the idea of the app isolation is just that — apps should not be able to touch each other.

There are of course escape hatches, because sometimes you want apps to interact.

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